Can I use Wireless router as a wireless client?

[jenipher]

I really do not think this is possible and cant find much about it on the web. But people here seem to know some crazy stuff sometimes....

I have a Net gear 814v2 wireless router with all the new firmware and nearby the broadcasting a signal. If I use a normal wireless card with a laptop and I have privileges to use this wireless signal and to access the Internet.
Is there a way to use my router as a client like to the other wireless router and receive a signal, establish an IP like a laptop would with a wireless card, and then allow wired computers to split this signal through the router?
I'm not trying to rebroadcast the signal and I know that it can’t be done with a router. I can’t change any settings on the router that is sending the wireless signal. But anything can be done to the receiving one I stated above.

Would anybody know of a stable, non-Net gear firmware, which would make this possible? I know there are other ways to do this, but I am only wondering if this implementation is possible.

Thanks in advance!

[bob]

Let me restate your question:
Basically, you would like to use Internet connection that is accessible via someone's wireless router to which you don't have admin rights. This connection you would like to share between your PC via your wireless router.

I'm sorry for that but I wanted to be clear about it. Here, your router can work as an access point.
I checked that on the net gear website, it does support that. The configuration should be fairly easy via setup wizard.

Since your router will be used as an assess point then its DHCP server needs to be shut down and you will receive necessary IP address from your wireless router.

Hope it helps.

[jenipher]

Hi, Let I explain you it in Detail. Here, I took two routers…
r1 = My router.
r2 = the other router that is sending the signal and that I do not have admin rights on.

I wish that it were that easy. It appears the access point on r1 means it acts as an access point for wireless cards to use to connect to. When you turn it off, it disables wireless all together. When it's on, it works for local network cards, but i cant seem to get it to work with r2. I can get the IP address, the SSID, the subnet mask, etc. of r2 by connection to it with a wireless card. R2 works as a DHCP server and will assign a computer with a wireless card an IP. I can also statically assign a computer with a network card to an unused IP and get access to r2. It appears any setting for the Internet in r1 will affect the 'Internet' port on the back of the router, which clearly won’t affect the wireless stuff. The wireless stuff on r1 also obviously works with its LAN settings. Here's a list of info:

r2 ROUTER

SSID: PAL
Channel: unknown-
A wireless card on a computer automatically connects to r2 and I am unaware of how to obtain the channel it uses.Any place that i know to check does not show the channel.
IP Address: 192.168.1.1
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0

r1 ROUTER

DHCP: disabled
SSID: PAL, then some different ones
Channel: various
IP Address: various unused ones on r2, such as 192.168.1.156
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Primary DNS: 192.168.1.1
Gateway Address: 192.168.1.1

Computer wired behind r1 ROUTER: à

Static IP Address: 192.168.1.201
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Primary DNS: 192.168.1.1 & tried r1's IP Address
Gateway Address: 192.168.1.1 & tried rs’s IP Address

it makes sense to me if it were possible. if i have a computer with a wireless card connected to r1, then turn on broadcast of SSID on my r2, then the computer will switch over to r2 automatically because the signal is stronger. However, when I have broadcast SSID off on r1, and the computer connected to r2 wirelessly, i cannot get a ping between anything on the two different routers.

[robinson]

The firmware would have to support either:
A specific client function; and most do not. Or A Repeater function, and some do.
Just disabling DHCP does not an Access Point make?

[bob]

I don't have this router model, so I cannot test it myself, but the website states that this router can work as access point and that it can be either a DHCP server or client.

What am I missing?